demaL-demaL-yeHsignaljammer: Col Richard is probably the most famous Bong.

What you did there, I noted.

/But you jam receivers, not signals or transmitters.

I am ill wont to contradict you, friend. But the last part of my moniker refers to music! The music of schizophrenia! It refers to my eclectic consciousness rather that my actions. However, I am acquainted with RF nomenclature, so I know your misinterpretation is a natural one. Back in the early seventies, when I invented the tag, knowing the internet was coming, guitarists and their ilk would shout our a key signature, then commence to wail. This was called jamning or jamming.

Amos Quito: Made a bong out of a single stalk of giant bamboo when I was a kid.

That's Vietnamese style, where it is humid enough to maintain. Everything else here is a knockoff. The bong, however, hails from mother Africa. I was around for the introduction of the device in question to the states.

Even then, it's how you look at it. Typically when jamming, one broadcasts a random signal of higher power than the intended radiation in hopes of saturating the (presuming FM) AGC. Tailoring this conflicting signal to have the bulk properties of the original signal minimizes the energy requirements of the interloper, admittedly at the expense of generality, making spread-spectrum techniques more attractive to the communicator. 'Signal-jamming' was a common term on the news and TV when I was a kid in the sixties, in any event. It makes sense in a broadcast context, as commercial receivers are not set up for spread-spectrum.

hammettman:Now that the ganja is legal the state needs to draw up some regulations on bongs. The money received from taxing the weed can put a whole department of bureaucrats to work cooking up and enforcing regulations. Something like: they can't be made of hard material, must be flexible and bend when smashed over the typical human skull. This would never have happened with proper government oversight.

/your stoner dollars at work

We thought of something much better. We give the first $40 million made, every year, to schools. You know, to help those "bureaucrats" teach your children "math".